ANOTHER RAID ON ENGLISH COASTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER RAID ON ENGLISH COASTS.

THREE PERSONS KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED.

LONDON, Feb. 21. The War Office, reports that four seaplanes raided the east and. south-east ' •coasts about noon to-day. Two appeared at Lowestoft and circled on: the I •south, side of the town for five minutes. They 'dropped bombs and then ros/3 to a great height and disappeared •eastward. Altogether seventeen small ilighly-explosive bombs were dropped. There were no casualties', but the bombs damaged two restaurants and two houses. Naval seaplanes pursued the raiders without result. Meanwhile two other seaplanes appeared on the Kentish coest. The first peared on the Kentish coast. The first ship, dropping a bomb in its vicinity, and the second made straight for Waliner, flying no higher than 350 ft. It dropped six bombs and then turned sharply east. Two bombs destroyed roofs and broke window>s. One fell close to a church, blowing out the windows as the corgregation were singing the Te Deum. A third fell on the roadway along the beach, killing a civilian and injuring a marine.

The total casualties were two men and a boy killed, and one marine wounded. Two aeroplanes rose over Walmer and pursued the raiders, but were apparently unable to overtake them.